Travelling Amazonia

Travelling Amazonia was shot on the Transamazonia road, a 6,000 mile long highway cutting through Amazonia’s vast forest. The construction of the Transamazonia generated an industry around the extraction of natural resources like metal, wood and rubber. In this film these materials are used to build a dolly and tracks to realize upon the very same road a “travelling shot”. Through the making of this “travelling shot” that recalls the illusions behind the idealism embedded in the Transamazonia’s project, the film addresses the processes and the pioneering ideas, that prevailed in this ultimate colonialist project realised during the “heyday” of Brazil’s aspiration to become “the country of the future”.